Astragalus nitidiflorus

Published by DEIA, Oct. 20, 2011



As always, and in the most normal way, the most incredible discoveries take place. A fan of botany took a bicycle ride by the proximities of the mountain “Cabezos del Pericón” belonging to the town Tallante in the providence of Murcia. While he enjoyed the day he noticed of a very weird and unknown plant, the Astragalus nitidiflorus or Tallante's Garbancillo, is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family considered in critical danger of disappearance, since then the only place known all over the world is located in Tallante.

All this took place in the year 2003, when it was believed that this plant had been already extinct for almost 100 years ago, and ever since the scientists have been accomplishing uncountable studies in order to protect the project of recovering this species.

Each living being has created there own strategy to face its survival. In general there are two types: Or you play in the edict of the generalist or in the ones of the specialists. If you belong to the first ones you are more adaptable and eclectic, at the same time of feeding yourself as in locating a place to live, etc... If on the contrary you belong with the seconds, you are much more demanding regarding nutrition and to the habitat. Equilibrium underlies everything, in its absence all that is generated hinders and destroys the surroundings.

Constantly the land equilibriums and unbalances have followed and in a epoch with hegemony, of the first and is close behind with control of the second.

The ways of life that have bear stoically the previous periods indicated before are the ones that reach a maximum level of development, taking sometimes advantage of, as in the case the human being, almost conquering and molding a whole system upon its way of life returning to break off that hoped-for equilibrium.

The more species that disappear more difficult it will be for the ecosystem to work correctly, because each and everyone of them are basic in order that life works as we know. So it is basic to protect the maximum of the biodiversity as a whole and not as I con-join of isolated species.

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DENISOV

Published in DEIA, Dec. 30, 2010



Many times, what seems to us an ancestral ritual result to be a story that has nothing to do with what we believed, and what seem to be for many, ignorance, passions me, which converts the past into a true mystery
to discover.

Continuing with this thought I would like to highlight the discovery made by a group of scientists a very special hominid's cadaver in Denisov, south of Siberia, Russia. Thanks to an exhaustive DNA analysis they can firm that this specie, that lived more than 30,000 years ago, totally unknown for us. As of today it was thought that there were only two types of hominids: The Neanderthal and the modern humans. But thanks to this discovery it has been demonstrated that, at least, they were three. They have named Denisova to this new sort of hominid. The Denisova is a far lost cousin of the former Neanderthal, revolutionizing all the theories on our origin as species. Tomás Marques Bonet, a Spanish scientist that has taken part in this project, affirms: “Till last year it was said that the modern humans got to Europe and exterminated the Neanderthals, from now on there will be a change in the way of understanding the human evolution.”

An example that proves that we can never take anything for known and that only the human stupidity can think that we already know everything, because there are always things to discover. Who knows if in the future there will be unforgotten main characters that neither could we imagine the transcendence that they had in history? Right now we are living some celebrations that in reality come from pagan rituals where the solstice of winter and the victory of the light over darkness were celebrated. As you see, even what we think is real can keep a mystery turning our lives into something fascinating, embellished by the unknown. I hope that this 2011 many of our dreams can be reached within our hands. The rest belongs to us, a mystery. Urte berrion!!!

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